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Printing control method, apparatus and storage medium therefor, and printing system

a control method and printing technology, applied in the field of printing, can solve problems such as the decline in confidentiality of displayed documents and user names, and achieve the effect of enhancing the confidentiality of print processing

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-02-21
CANON KK
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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a printing control method and apparatus that enhances the confidentiality of print processing by allowing the modification of at least one of a user name and document name associated with a print job. This is achieved by setting identification information corresponding to the print job and modifying the user name and / or document name of the print job to which the identification information has been appended. The method also includes steps of transmitting the print job to a printing device, inputting identification information and determining whether it matches identification information corresponding to a received job, and executing the print job if a match is determined. The technical effect of this invention is to improve the security and privacy of printing processes.

Problems solved by technology

The result is a decline in confidentiality regarding displayed document and user names.

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[0030]FIG. 1 is a block diagram useful in describing the configuration of a printer control system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It should be noted that as long as the functions according to this embodiment are implemented, then, if not stated otherwise, the arrangement of the invention may be a stand-alone device, a system comprising a plurality of devices or a system in which processing is executed upon making a connection via a network such as a LAN or WAN. Further, the printing control apparatus of the present invention may be incorporated in the printing apparatus of a printer or may be an apparatus that is connected to a printing apparatus via a LAN or the like in order to control the printing apparatus, as in the manner of a host computer.

[0031]The system shown in FIG. 1 includes a host computer 3000 having a CPU 1 which, on the basis of a program ROM in a ROM 3 or a document processing program stored in an external memory 11, loaded i...

second embodiment

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[0058]A printing system according to this embodiment may have an arrangement which, as shown in FIG. 3, spools print data from the application 201 temporarily in the form of intermediate code data. This arrangement is provided as an addition to the system comprising the printer 1500 and host computer 3000 implemented by the programs shown in FIG. 2.

[0059]FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the structure of a program executed by the host computer 3000 according to a second embodiment of the invention.

[0060]A spool file 303 comprising intermediate codes is generated temporarily when a print instruction is sent from the graphic engine 202 to the printer driver 203 by the application 201. In the arrangement of FIG. 2 according to the first embodiment, the application 201 is freed from print processing at the moment the printer driver 203 finishes converting all print instructions from the graphic engine 202 to control commands for the printer 1500. In the arrangeme...

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Abstract

In a printing control apparatus and method for performing printing by a printing device based upon a print job, a password corresponding to a print job is entered and print data with the accompanying password is generated and sent from a host computer to a printer, where the print data is to be printed. The host computer is capable of setting any information for the document name and user name associated with the print job. When the printer receives and prints the print data to which the password has been appended, the printer displays the user name and document name associated with the print job and performs printing in response to entry of the corresponding password by the user.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to a printing control method and apparatus for performing printing based upon print data to which user identification information has been attached, and to a storage medium storing a program for implementing this control method.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]In a known printing system, a user employs a host computer to create print data upon attaching password information (identification information) and to transmit the print data to a printer so that confidential printing can be performed. In this case, the printing apparatus is capable of printing the print data only when the user enters the correct password information that was attached to the print data.[0003]If the printing apparatus is a shared printer connected to a network, such a printing system is useful when a user does not wish another person to see a printout or when a document having confidential items or the like that must not be revealed to other parties is to be p...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F15/00B41J29/38B41J5/30G06F3/12G06F21/00
CPCG06F21/608G06K15/4095G06Q20/206G06Q2220/10
Inventor KUJIRAI, YASUHIRO
Owner CANON KK